S 1664

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An original bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to increase control over immigration to the United States by increasing border patrol and investigative personnel and detention facilities, improving the system used by employers to verify citizenship or work-authorized alien status, increasing penalties for alien smuggling and document fraud, and reforming asylum, exclusion, and deportation law and procedures; to reduce the use of welfare by aliens; and for other purposes.

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Votes on this bill

Date	Chamber	Result	Vote
5/2/96	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 105: On the Amendment graham amdt no. 3759; To suspend the requirements imposed on State and local governments if certain conditions prevail.
5/2/96	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 106: On the Amendment chafee amdt no. 3840; To provide that the emergency benefits available to illegal immigrants also are made available to legal immigrants as execptions to the deeming requirements.
5/1/96	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 104: On the Amendment graham amdt no. 3764; To limit the deeming provisions for purposes of determining eligiblity of legal aliens for Medicaid, and for other purposes.
5/1/96	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 103: On the Amendment simon amdt no. 3813; To prevent retroactive deeming of sponsor income.
5/1/96	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 102: On the Amendment simon amdt no. 3810; To exempt from deeming requirements immigrants who are disabled after entering the United States.
5/1/96	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 101: On the Motion to Table motion to table abraham amdt no. 3752; To strike provisions providing for the implementation of a national identification system and those provisions requiring State driver's licenses and birth certificates to conform to new Federal regulations and standards.
5/1/96	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 100: On the Amendment leahy amdt no. 3780; To provide a minimum safeguards in expedited exclusion procedure to prevent returning bona fide refugees to their persecutors.
5/1/96	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 99: On the Amendment bradley amdt no. 3790; To establish an Office for the Enforcement of Employer Sanctions.
4/30/96	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 98: On the Amendment Feinstein amdt. no. 3776; To strike the provision relating to the language of deportation notice.
4/30/96	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 97: On the Amendment simon amendment no. 3809; To adjust the definition of public charge.
4/30/96	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 96: On the Amendment Kennedy amdt. no. 3816; To enable employers to determine work eligibility of prospective employees without fear of being used.
4/30/96	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 95: On the Amendment kennedy amendment no. 3822; To exempt children, veterans, and pregnant mothers from the sponsor deeming requirements under the medicaid program.
4/30/96	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 94: On the Amendment kennedy amendments nos. 3820 and 3823 en bloc; To provide exceptions to the sponsor deeming requirements for legal immigrants for programs for which illegal aliens are eligible, and for other purposes.
4/30/96	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 92: On the Amendment graham amendment no. 3803; To clarify and enumerate public assistance programs with respect to which the deeming provisions apply.
4/30/96	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 91: On the Amendment Graham amendment no. 3760; To condition the repeal of the Cuban Adjustment Act on a democratically elected government in Cuba being in power.
4/25/96	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 88: On the Motion to Table Motion to table Simpson amdt. no. 3671; To create new ground of exclusion and of deportation for falsely claiming U.S. citizenship.
4/25/96	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 87: On the Motion to Table motion to table amdt no. 3670; To establish a pilot program to collect information relating to nonimmigrant foreign students.
4/25/96	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 86: On the Motion to Table motion to table simpson amdt no. 3669; To prohibit foreign students on F-1 visas from obtaining free public elementary or secondary education.
4/25/96	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 85: On the Motion to Table motion to table the motion to recommit; Immigration Control and Financial Responsibility Act of 1996
4/25/96	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 84: On the Motion to Table MOTION TO TABLE FEINSTEIN AMDT NO. 3740; To limit and improve the system for the admission of family-sponsored immigrants.
4/25/96	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 83: On the Amendment simpson amendment no. 3739; To provide for temporary numerical limits on family-sponsored immigrant visas, a temporary priority-based system of allocating family-sponsored immigrant visas, and a temporary per-country limit--to apply for the five fiscal years after enactment of S. 1664.
4/24/96	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 82: On the Motion to Table MOTION TO TABLE DORGAN AMDT NO. 3667; To express the sense of the Senate that a balanced budget constitutional amendment should protect the social security system by excluding the receipts and outlays of the social security trust funds from the budget.
4/24/96	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 81: On the Amendment simpson amdt no. 3672 as modified; In the nature of a substitute.
4/24/96	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 80: On the Amendment simpson amdt no. 3730; To repeal the ban on the search of open-fields by employees of the INS when they have probable cause to believe an illegal act has occurred.